Written Quotes
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Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
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History is not what happened but what is written down
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
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It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.
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I've got a Kanji symbol on my shoulder; it's for my son and means 'strength and power.' I have my son and daughter's names, Dominik and Aalyah, written on the inside of the left and right biceps, too.
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My progressive ideals are screaming in Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos book; what I believe. There is no muddying-up because of debate. You know exactly where I stand, because I put it down in the written word.
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Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.
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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
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I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.
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The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
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Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.
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I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.
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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
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The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
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'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.
